974 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (PRAIN). | Tragia. 
Racemes lateral, slender, rather dense, 4-1 in. long, with a naked slender 
pubescent and bristly peduncle 4-1} in. long, with numerous male 
flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers; pedicels in both sexes 
solitary to and much shorter than the bracts, } lin. long or less; male 
bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate,” acuminate, 1-2 lin. long, bristly ; 
female bracts wide-ovate, somewhat 3-lobed, 2-24 lin. long; bracteoles 
subfaleate-lanceolate. Male sepals 3, ovate. Stamens 3, subsessile. 
Female calyx-segments 6, lanceolate, at first membranous, at length 
accrescent and thinly coriaceous, 5 lin. long, irregularly pinnatipartite, 
rhachis rather broad, with 4-6 unequal short or Jong lobes on each side 
and an ovate or crescentic terminal membranous laminula, occasionally 
one or both of the distal pair of lateral lobes ending in a similar lami- 
nula; rhachis pubescent and bristly; lateral lobes densely or sparingly 
persistently setose with stiff white bristles; terminal laminula glabrous 
or sparingly pubescent. Ovary densely pubescent; styles 3, glabrous, 
united for half their length. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly setose, 
% in. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown with pale 
blotches—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 945; De Wild. & Durand, 
Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 52, and Pl. Thonner. Congol. 21; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 498. 7. manniana, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 436, 
and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 941. 7’. Klingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 
105. 7’. calvescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 324. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagroo River, Mann, 834! Scarcies Valley ; 
Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 48371! Togo: Bismarckburg, Kling, 140! Buettner, 81! 
Misahohe, Baymann, 534! Southern Nigeria: Lower Niger, Barter, 511! 
Cameroons: Johann-Albrechtshohe, 850 ft., Buesgen, 52! Bonge, Dusen, 318! 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island: Don, 39! 61! Gaboon: Libreville, 
Duparquet! Loango: Chinchosho, Soyauz, 190! 4 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bangala; Mongalla, at Bobi near Ngalis 
1500 ft., Thonner, 43! Eastern Province: Fort Beni, Uildbraed, 2314! Wambutti, 
Mildbraed, 2893! between Mawambi and Awakubi, Mildbraed, 3162! 
A very distinct species ; the form described as 7. manniana, Miill. Arg., is based 
onaspecimen which only differs from the type by a teratological malformation of 
some of its female calyx-segments; in most of the specimens examined the 
female calyx is quite normal. The form described as 7’. calvescens, Pax, only differs 
from the type in having the female calyx-segments less densely and less persistently 
white setose. 
9. T’. natalensis, Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 107, Stems long, slender, 
twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long petioled, 
membranous, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, base rounded or trun- 
cate or shallow-cordate, margin closely and sharply serrate, 2-4 in. long, 
1-2} in. wide, sparingly to densely softly pubescent on both surfaces 
and bristly setose especially on the nerves beneath ; petiole 3-9 in. long, 
patently pilose and hispid; stipules linear-lanceolate, erect, 5— in. long, 
hispid externally. Racemes lateral, slender, rather lax, 1-14 in. long, 
with a naked slender softly and patently pilose peduncle, 3—] in. long; 
with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers ; pedicels 
in both sexes solitary to and shorter than their bracts; male bracts 
oblong-subspathulate, obtuse or subacute, 14-2} lin. long, membranous, 
